My take on an old CPS sketch (#235), with a vintage playing card image
"The Road--Winter" by Courier and Ives
"The Road--Winter" by Courier and Ives
Aspiration
Oh, give me an old-fashioned Christmas card,
With hostlers hostling in an old inn yard,
With church bells chiming their silver notes,
And jolly red squires in their jolly red coats,
And a good fat goose by the fire that dangles,
And a few more angels and a few less angles,
Turn backward, Time, to please this bard,
And give me an old-fashioned Christmas card.
-Ogden Nash
(From Epstein, Spare That Yule Log, copyright 1933, 1961,
found in The Gift of Christmas, copyright 1965)
USPS 2002
I believe it was also Ogden Nash who said,
"Merry Christmas, nearly everyone!"
Oh, give me an old-fashioned Christmas card,
With hostlers hostling in an old inn yard,
With church bells chiming their silver notes,
And jolly red squires in their jolly red coats,
And a good fat goose by the fire that dangles,
And a few more angels and a few less angles,
Turn backward, Time, to please this bard,
And give me an old-fashioned Christmas card.
-Ogden Nash
(From Epstein, Spare That Yule Log, copyright 1933, 1961,
found in The Gift of Christmas, copyright 1965)
USPS 2002I believe it was also Ogden Nash who said,
"Merry Christmas, nearly everyone!"
